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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The accompaniment to writing poetry as a subject to Rilke is what?

2. Mood writes in the Epilogue that one translator said of Rilke's controversial line, "even ____would not bother to satirize."

3. What must "one know" in order to write a single verse?

4. Rilke writes in "The Dragon-Princess," that if we think of the existence of the individual as a "larger or smaller" what?

5. Mood writes in "The Difficulty of Dying," "the contradiction is a ____ one, that is, it resides in the bloom itself."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rilke remark in "Blood-Remembering" of the memories themselves?

2. What does Rilke remark of childhood memories in "Blood-Remembering"?

3. What does Mood preface "Blood-Remembering" with, in discussing the poet?

4. In "Blood-Remembering," what does Rilke write about the young as writers?

5. What has Rilke accomplished in his epitaph, according to Mood?

6. What must one "see" in order to write a single verse, according to Rilke?

7. What does "under so many lids" reference in "The Difficulty of Dying"?

8. What does Mood say of Orpheus in his interpretation of "The Difficulty of Dying"?

9. Describe in your own words what Rilke means in his metaphor of man's world in "The Dragon-Princess."

10. From what text is "Blood-Remembering" taken? What character is speaking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss "The Poems Praise" in terms of subject, theme, symbolism, imagery, and structure.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the elements of Rilke's writing which make him a precursor to the feminist movement. What aspects of his writing and his theory are ahead of his time in these matters? How does he relate the female and the male form?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following in terms of their influence on Rilke and his writing: Friedrich Nietzsche, Auguste Rodin, Sigmund Freud.

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